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If you were at Comic-Con in San Diego over the weekend and you saw someone who looked like they might be a little short for a stormtrooper, it was probably Mark Hamill.

A drama that unfolds on Twitter isn't always what it seems.

At Sunday's game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field, a foul ball down the right field line was picked up by one of the ball boys and tossed to a young child in the front row.

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Except the kid, being pretty young, dropped the ball which then rolled under his seat. It was then an older fan picked up the ball and gave the... Читать дальше...

People often describe golf as a relaxing day out, and you'd think that would apply to the spectators too.

Voice-activated home assistants like Alexa and Cortana know details about you that range from your guilty pleasure playlists to your go-to food delivery preferences — even the type of toilet paper you prefer. But how well do you understand these AIs in return?

The best VPN providers aren't necessarily the most expensive. In fact, some of the best VPNs are very affordable, which is great news for everyone.

The best VPN providers aren't necessarily the most expensive. In fact, some of the best VPNs are very affordable.

The best VPN providers aren't necessarily the most expensive. In fact, some of the best VPNs are very affordable.

Smartphone cameras are about to get pretty insane. 

Sony, the company that struggles selling its own smartphones but is very good at building camera sensors for other companies' phones, has announced its new IMX586 CMOS image sensor for smartphones. 

The sensor is pretty impressive, with 48-megapixel resolution and a minute pixel size of just 0.8 μm, both world firsts according to Sony. 

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When this sensor makes it into smartphones... Читать дальше...

Disney severed its business relationship with Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn on Friday. Let's see how long it lasts.

Asking for a friend: Does anyone drink eight glasses of water a day?

Sure, we know staying hydrated can prevent headaches, improve your complexion, and give you a much-needed jolt of energy, but who has the time to pour a glass of water when you have an influx of meetings and deadlines?

Staying hydrated while hiking also poses a problem. You're surrounded by water, but none of it is necessarily drinkable — and there's certainly no bodega at the peak of that mountain range you just climbed. Читать дальше...

We rounded up the best deals on Amazon for home products, like vacuums, televisions, kitchen appliances, and smart devices.

It's 2018 so of course Twitter would take something as terrifying as the United States president writing an all-caps threat to another world leader, leaving us (yet again) standing on the precipice of international conflict, and make it into a meme.

On the spectrum of graphic design software, pro-level software suites like Adobe Creative Cloud sit at one end, while bare-bones, free-with-purchase apps like Microsoft Paint reside on the other. But if your budget and ambition lies somewhere in between the two, your options are kind of limited. Yet there is a large demand for design software that’s both powerful and accessiblePixTeller Pro is here to answer that call.

The final season of Game of Thrones may still be a long way off for us mere mortals, but the show's actors are already saying goodbye to it.

If you missed out on the single, measly Instant Pot sale that Prime Day had to offer (until it sold out, of course) and are still pissed about it, good news: Walmart is coming in clutch with one of the best Instant Pot deals we've ever seen.

If you were thinking things might finally be about to calm down in Riverdale, then guess what?

Samsung finally has an in-house solution for a small but annoying problem: having to charge your phone and smartwatch separately. 

Donald Trump writing an angry tweet aimed at a world leader isn't particularly unusual at this point.

Lin-Manuel Miranda may just be one of the nicest guys in show business.

The days of Snapchat's peer-to-peer payment service Snapcash are numbered.

In one of the most WTF moments from Sacha Baron Cohen's second episode of Who Is America?, former vice president Dick Cheney signed what was referred to as a "waterboarding kit."

If you weren't at San Diego Comic Con this weekend (and probably if you were), you were likely super jazzed about the sheer amount of TV and film trailers scheduled to drop over the weekend. In a year without a big Marvel or Game of Thrones presence, these trailers still kept us on our toes and got us psyched for next year's entertainment.

The title may be about someone else, but the full trailer shows that The Crimes of Grindelwald is all about Albus Dumbledore. The younger version of Harry Potter's mentor (played by Jude Law) has a lot of power and baggage in the Fantastic Beasts sequel, and he's the key to the events of this movie – and the future of the wizarding world.